Photos: Fashion with Compassion

The theme for this year’s Fashion with Compassion was An Affair to Remember held on Oct. 11, 2012 in Edmonton. The old Hollywood theme highlighted trends that were pure glamour. It was a sparkling must-see event with food, drinks and entertainment by Dave Babcock and his Jump Trio. Proceeds from Syncrude presents Fashion with Compassion 2012 will go towards Growing Compassion, a campaign to expand Sorrentino’s Compassion House.

Mayor Stephen Mandel showed some fancy footwork when he accompanied cancer survivor Margaret Powder on the catwalk at Syncrude’s Fashion With Compassion gala at the Shaw Conference Centre. The dinner and a lunch raised $300,000 to help expand and sustain Sorrentino’s Compassion House, the home-away-from-home for out of town women in Edmonton to be diagnosed or treated for breast cancer.

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